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Three Social Trends That Will Influence Education in 2014 | online learning insights
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The Great Tech War Of 2012 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
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It's Time for a New Definition of Accreditation - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Quality assurance suggests a goal that can be evaluated and distinguished from comparable applications.
- Those in the academic world know full well that agreement on what constitutes quality in almost any discipline is virtually impossible
- The concept of accountability for performance is often viewed as a threat to academic freedom
- Do we have any idea left of what to expect of a person who holds an undergraduate degree?
- many challenges to both inputs and outputs of colleges and universities call into question the level of “quality” to which we aspire.
- Accreditation is not voluntary. It is not nongovernmental. It does not demonstrably provide definable quality assurance. It is overly keyed to an institution’s mission, making impossible some generic meaning of what a college or graduate is. And the underlying purpose—to maintain college independence through self-regulation and accountability—is seriously undermined, if not already at an end.
- Questions related to the core of campus life—educational process, the faculty, curricula, student services, and academic freedom—will receive short shrift by all sides. Lacking, above all, will be any consensus on what to do.
- The essence of a renewed definition of accreditation repudiates the academic myth of the separation of politics and education and openly acknowledges a constant tension between the political processes of government and the traditional academic belief in a (nonexistent) self-regulating academy.
- Change must come mainly from accreditation, finding ways to clarify its operations and heighten colleges’ accountability. The bottom line of defense remains concentrating on institutional autonomy, curriculum control, and academic freedom.
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- The bigger change in the market might be the clear direction of mainline LMS providers towards becoming learning platforms that act as the hub of an ecosystem of learning applications.
- I do not believe that the LMS is a commodity – which LMS a school selects can make a real, long-term impact. I also believe that schools should not ignore the trajectory of the various providers.
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6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Animations
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ePortfolios as Badges - A Badge System Design for Learning by Creating | HASTAC
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